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privaldo:
Exactly, I keep asking myself what was going on in Pep's mind when he made his selections.

ayamsuperstar:
Guardiola got his tactics wrong...
Why play KDB at the wings...when u av wingers on the bench .this wil spell doom for City in dis match

OvisFranko:
A university engineering graduate is a Graduate Member automatically. You can pay to get the Certificate.(GNSE)
After 4 years of Post-Graduation from the University,you can apply for Corporate Membership (MNSE)

sweetmichael007:
You didn't click the right domain.don't come here and say it a scam when it not

mayemaye:
Please clarify

theres

Student mem (pay online)
graduate mem 1-4yrs post NYSC (pay online)
Assiociate
Corporate
Fellow

nextstep:
This project is becoming traumatizing: I'm broke, heavily indebted, demoralized; I've taken to drink, I'm having sleepless nights, and I'm very short tempered; I have more bad dreams than usual, and can't focus on anything. We're not due to finish this project till December, no tenants, no new business leads, and still plan to sink 2M before completion. I must admit that I have also contemplated demolishing the whole thing and vowing never to do anything worthwhile again, especially not in Delta state.

I'm only able to write this after spending 1 week feeling dejected, then slightly recovering my spirits. This post is a quick summary of all the things that went wrong with this build.

In summary, we ended up settling in May 2016 for 1.8M to buy the land again (already paid 1.8M to first owner, youths, etc). Long story short, the land tussle was between two ancient gentlemen, and the argument went back 20+ years. You don't realize that as you spend 30k here, 10k there, 70k another place to mobilize police, transport and lodging for a lawyer; 50k for security; 10k for informants; 10k in fuel going up and down; it adds up to a lot. Lesson learned: try to engage with all aggrieved parties immediately and leave police out of your business.

Some memorable events:

2015-11-18 The building was brutally vandalized with all walls almost entirely broken. Spent almost 400k on police, security, lawyers, to fight whoever was responsible, to repair, and to buy more materials that were damaged.
2015-11-23 Plumber cut into decking concrete and rebar. Had to re-inforce and recast that section.
2015-12-02 Temporary staircase put on wrong side (engineer assumed door was in wrong place). Had to spend time and money to fix this, break open the wall that was supposed to have the door, and to demolish and recreate a new temporary staircase
2016-01-12 Some youths and old man show up and chase off workers with cutlass. This happens periodically for several months.
2016-01-14 Panels arrive, doors fabricated, but had to be left outside for 3 weeks because downstairs was not completed. Paid almost 50k for security because of existing land tussle.
2016-03-17 Temporary staircase pushed off by our land tussle guy, and bamboo damaged. Spent money to restore it.
2016-04-07 Temporary zinc and wood structure inside building to protect decking. 90k materials and labour. Ultimately, this fails to keep decking dry.
2016-06-10 Panels removed because of extensive leaking. Specialized labour to disconnect and delicately move it cost 60k. Of course it will cost again to put them back.
2016-06-11 New roof begun, but only 90% complete before I have to return to base in Ilorin. Suspect sabotage.
2016-06-16 LGA men show up, halt work, take 120k of materials from site, insist that 240k must be paid before we can finish the roof.

This is all I can remember, but I will tally cost overruns here:
1800k - land
400k - police issues/security
200k - misc mistakes by personnel
150k - roof mistakes
240k - 2nd payment to LGA (didn't get a receipt the 1st time)

So, in addition to the reasonable costs of building (which includes land, tax, youths, materials, labour, transport), the overruns caused by all our issues is about 2.8M

This is enough to make me sick and weak at the knees. This is a very heavy price to pay for my inexperience, and my desire to help move Nigeria forward. Sometimes I wish I had just used this money to just start an import business, or some other low-risk business but I had high hopes. I pray to learn from these mistakes and pray that in the coming years, I will smile about this episode in my life.

As of 2016-06-27, heavy rains enter building and decking is heavily soaked. The rain is damaging the walls and water is dripping unto the materials and batteries below. No money for 2 months so we just siddon look. The irony is that I could have left the leaking roof alone, saved my money, and still have the same situation. July is going to be absolutely awful as the rains play havoc with this building.

Datagric:
Please can you share some of the nice group link via screen shot

Oluwasaeon:
How ?

duality:
How do you save the udemy courses on telegram.

saydfact:
this calculation is for 600m2 of concrete using 1:2:4 and thickness of 150mm

CEMENT = 570 bags

SAND = 64 tonnes

GRANITE = 160 tonnes

this calculation is for 600m2 of concrete using 1:2:4 and thickness of 100mm

CEMENT = 380 bags

SAND = 43 tonnes

GRANITE = 106 tonnes

Goodluck

saydfact:
Thanks.. That's an intelligent question.

The resin why 100mm is used is because if 225 is used, it becomes to heavy to lift up and could be risky to workers who try to.

In the case of insitu 225mm is used to prevent breaking blocks to meet up like we do in Precast.

It means 100mm is sufficient even in insitu but easier to do 225mm and avoid breaking blocks to meet up.

Thanks sir

saydfact:
Morning and thanks for following my threads.
No1. Thickness of Reinforcement is 12mm or 16mm (if you have offcuts on site)

No2. Thickness is 100mm but width is 150mm or 225mm depending on the width of the block used.

You're mistaken width for thickness...

Regards

saydfact:
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020 TO EVERYONE HERE.


THIS YEAR WOULD BE GREATER THAN THE PREVIOUS.

AMEN...... #GRATEFUL

Patrioticman007:
What a world, FG needs to pump $1 billion dollars into Health sector from our foreign reserve immediately to cushion the effects of Aunty Coro. A stitch in time saves nine.